permit

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"County Clerk: "Your contractor will handle the permits for you.

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Quick take

a legal document giving official permission to do something

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of permit gathered in one view.

noun

a legal document giving official permission to do something

noun

the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization

noun

large game fish; found in waters of the West Indies

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for permit.

noun

a legal document giving official permission to do something

noun

the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization

noun

large game fish; found in waters of the West Indies

verb

consent to, give permission; "She permitted her son to visit her estranged husband"; "I won't let the police search her basement"; "I cannot allow you to see your exam"

verb

make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen; "This permits the water to rush in"; "This sealed door won't allow the water come into the basement"; "This will permit the rain to run off"

verb

allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting; "We don't allow dogs here"; "Children are not permitted beyond this point"; "We cannot tolerate smoking in the hospital"

Example sentences

"County Clerk: "Your contractor will handle the permits for you.

Parts of it he contracted out, and the contractors handled the permits.

And if your workplace environment really doesn't permit that, move on.

"Permissive" licenses like MIT and BSD literally permit you do more things with the software.

This permit includes, basic checks, that you can drive and that you obey the law in terms of driving, which means you have clean driving record.

Basically if you have a job offer and a reasonable salary, you're next to guaranteed to be able to get a work permit.

As they gather huge amounts of power, their purpose in life becomes to guard that power jealously and to increase it as opportunities permit.

You can come to Sweden and seek asylum and you'd be allowed to work, and when you do sign a contract then you can get a permit to stay and cancel the asylum request.

This is further reinforced by the built-in graduated minimum pay: why permit the employee to negotiate a raise if they'll legally be due a raise anyway?

" That premise underlies a whole range of securities law "exemptions" that permit small offerings, etc. so that companies can grow and develop without choking on process.

In fact, monads are extremely simple; the actual difficulty is twofold: it's not immediately obvious why they matter and they're too abstract to permit any analogies.

There is absolutely no reason to permit this kind of behavior, and I'm frankly a little appalled a community of startup founders and hackers would ever defend this kind of behavior, as some of the comments here have done.